🍭 Publishers vs Google AI 👨‍⚖️

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Justice for alarms, we lost a good one today… ✊

Let’s dig in.

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• Google drops new model

• Rolling Stone vs Google

• How To Build Your Own AI Co-workers

• And Everything Else

New Open-Source Model
🔎 Google Debuts VaultGemma, A Privacy-First Open LLM

The Bite: Google released VaultGemma on Friday.

It’s a 1B-parameter open-weight model trained from scratch with differential privacy.

The intention is to reduce training-data memorization while keeping utility, with public weights and docs for inspection and audits.

Google emphasizes DP during pretraining, not just fine-tuning, to harden defaults for sensitive use cases.

It’s a practical, smaller model aimed at real deployments, not just a lab demo.

Snacks:

• Sept 12, 2025: Release post and model card published.

• 1B Parameters: Lightweight enough for local or hybrid use.

• Open Weights: Downloadable with a clear model card.

• DP Pretraining: Privacy protection baked into the pipeline.

• Target Sectors: Healthcare, finance, public sector, compliance.

Why it Bites: Every lab brags “privacy-first.”
(cough cough: Apple?)

Google just open-sourced a model that can actually prove it.

This is action-over-talking.

Maybe Tim Cook should take notes…

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🧠 You Need to Know

🤖 xAI Cuts 500 Data Annotation Roles

→ Elon Musk’s startup laid off 500 annotators as it pivots to specialist AI tutors.

Internal emails describe the pivot and layoffs.

🍎 Apple’s AI And Search Boss Exits

→ Robby Walker will depart Apple, affecting Siri and Search initiatives.

Bloomberg reports the leadership change on Sept 12, 2025.

🎵 TikTok Sale Deadline Likely Extended Again

→ The Sept 17 divest-or-ban deadline is expected to be pushed as talks continue.

Officials anticipate another extension amid ongoing talks.

🇬🇧 OpenAI, Nvidia Plan UK Data Center Spend

→ Companies are poised to announce multi-billion UK data center investments during a U.S. delegation visit.

Reports point to announcements tied to the visit.

🏈 Amazon Adds New AI To NFL Broadcasts

→ Prime Video is adding Pocket Health and late-game prediction tools to Thursday Night Football.

New features aim to enhance analysis and viewer context.

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🧰 Browse Like You’re From The Future

🧭 Comet by Perplexity — AI Browser 
→ Turn search into an interactive, context-rich workspace with answers built in.

🗂️ Dia Browser — Chat Browser 
→ Chat with tabs, organize workspaces, and create across code & creative modes.

🧠 Genspark — Agent Browser 
→ An agentic browser that navigates for you and drafts trustworthy Sparkpages.

🌐 Opera Operator — AI in Opera 
→ Built-in assistants to summarize, generate, and automate as you browse.

⚡ SigmaOS Browser — Workspace Browser 
→ A focused, tab-taming workspace with split views and shareable pages.

AI Lawsuits
🎸 Rolling Stone Publisher Sues Google Over AI

The Bite: Penske Media (publisher of Rolling Stone, Billboard, Variety) filed suit alleging Google’s AI Overviews reproduce its journalism without permission, diverting clicks and ad dollars.

The complaint argues Google’s summaries reduce the need to visit source sites, harming subscription and affiliate revenue.

Google says AI Overviews help users discover content and that it works with publishers on traffic and visibility.

The case could set first-wave rules for AI summaries in search.

Snacks:

• Filed Friday: Complaint submitted against Google over AI Overviews.

• Penske Media: Owner of Rolling Stone, Billboard, Variety.

• Product Named: “AI Overviews” identified as the alleged source of harm.

• Claimed Harm: Traffic and affiliate revenue cannibalization cited.

• Google’s Response: Says summaries assist users and discovery.

Why it bites: If summaries eat the click, the whole open web’s business model is on trial.

One ruling could rewrite SEO and media economics overnight.

Grab your popcorn folks.

And don’t get too used to those AI summaries on Google.